Collection System Hydraulic Engineer

Why Black and Veatch

Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life.

At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use.

The Team

As an employee-owned, global leader in building critical infrastructure in the water, energy, and government services markets, Black & Veatch has a long-standing reputation for providing world-class service to our clients.

Our U.S. planning business has seen consistent growth driven by our clients’ needs to address challenges stemming from population growth, aging infrastructure, system reliability and resilience concerns, the need to improve operational efficiency, water quality regulations, and the lack of effective tools to leverage large data sets to help guide decision making.  This senior position represents a strategic business opportunity for Black & Veatch’s Distribution & Collection System Planning team to help the company grow its market share by providing world-class water & wastewater infrastructure planning services.

The Opportunity

Black & Veatch has an exciting opportunity for a Collection System Hydraulic Engineer. In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Provide technical and execution leadership for our wastewater collection hydraulic modeling and system planning projects across the United States
• Evaluate wastewater systems for capacity, condition, resilience, and operating efficiency
• Analyze wastewater flow monitoring and rainfall data
• Analyze and project wastewater flows
• Use hydraulic modeling software to build, calibrate, and evaluate wastewater systems for system planning and design support
• Perform risk-based assessments to develop and prioritize capital improvement programs
• Integrate condition assessment and asset management data into system master planning and to directly support replacement & renewal planning
• Use cutting-edge hydraulic modeling, GIS, asset management, and data visualization software to address client challenges
• Support client marketing and business development activities by providing technical leadership during project pursuits across the United States including pre-positioning, proposal development, and interviews

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with technical and thought leadership surrounding wastewater infrastructure systems
• Experience in client-facing roles
• 8+ years of wastewater infrastructure assessment experience including hydraulic modeling, master planning, asset management, and data analysis.  Experience with transient/surge modeling and analysis is a plus.
• Experience managing wastewater system modeling and planning projects, leading technical tasks and project teams, and executing wastewater collection system studies and assessments that involve system operations modeling, optimization techniques, risk & resiliency evaluations, capital and life-cycle cost analyses, CIP prioritization
• Proficient with report writing and PowerPoint presentations
• Experience in developing proposals and leading technical discussions during client interviews/projects
• Experience and/or familiarity with Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and software (i.e. ArcGIS)
• Capable in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.)
• Proficient with data analyses and analytics
• Familiarity with dynamic data visualization software such as PowerBI
• Experience and/or familiarity with hydraulic modeling software such as:
  • InfoWorks ICM
  • PCSWMM
  • OpenFlows Sewer (SewerGEMS)
  • AquaTwin Sewer

Management Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing or equivalent experience in Engineering work. Minimum of 5 years related work experience. All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Holds an active engineering registration or licensure to support engineer of record (EOR) requirements for BV projects in applicable countries, and supports where necessary.

Certifications

Holds an active engineering registration or licensure (P.E.) to support engineer of record (EOR) requirements for BV projects in applicable countries, and supports where necessary.

Work Environment and Schedule

• Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments. 
• Normal office environment with a hybrid work schedule: 3 days in office and 2 days remote  
• Some employees are subject to extreme cold (temperatures below 30 degrees for periods of more than one hour), extreme heat (temperatures above 90 degrees for periods of more than one hour), hazards (electrical currents, working on scaffolding and high places, exposures to chemicals), atmospheric conditions (fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, poor ventilation), and oils. Some employees are required to use respiratory systems as a result of fumes, mists, gases, or to comply with governmental regulatory requirements. All positions require the following physical abilities: talking, fingering, grasping, hearing, keyboard input, seeing, and writing. All positions require the ability to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or move objects. 
• Work involves sitting most of the time. Some positions require the following physical abilities: reaching, climbing, balancing, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, walking, standing, pulling, lifting, pushing, carrying, and driving. Some positions require the ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or move objects.

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